This is the introductory volume for a new critical edition of The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopedic philosophical and scientific work of the 1

A wide range of specialists provide a comprehensive overview of the reception of Pythagorean ideas in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, shedding new light es

Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages contains eight thought-provoking articles that discuss the formation of antique and early medieval r

This volume presents Epistles 43-45 of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, some of the richest and most diverse texts in the corpus. They include anecdotes